Travel Bans and Stay at Home Orders – Taking a Virtual Approach to On-Site Assessments
I remember when I first understood the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to have on the world of third party risk management. I was at a meeting in Phoenix in early March and a colleague had just finished a quick call from his office. “Well that’s it” he...
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The Watchers Vs. The Watched – CCPA Evolving To Further Protect Individuals
In her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff describes “surveillance capitalism” as “unilaterally claiming human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.” In...
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Get Off My Cloud Webinar Summary
"Get Off My Cloud" was the third session in a six-part webinar series offered by Shared Assessments in partnership with OneTrust. The series, “Optimizing Your TPRM Program,” runs through July 2020 and covers a broad range of topics. The webinars are scheduled to...
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The Next COVID-19 Shoe to Drop: Actually, it’s Potentially an Avalanche of Shoes
After 16 years as a risk leader at Deutsche Bank, Victor Meyer recently joined Supply Wisdom as the COO. Supply Wisdom®️ is a real-time and continuous risk intelligence and monitoring solution that covers 14 categories of third party and location risks across over 300...
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Regulatory Consistency in Cloud Due Diligence Guidance
As changes to third party risk management accelerate in a COVID 19 environment, one of the organizations already considering increased use of the cloud will most likely be further motivated by the heavily promoted increased resilience cloud service providers (CSPs)...
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Information Security Needs a New Narrative
Many companies have a fundamental information security problem, according to the co-authors of the A Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019). Those organizations pay too much attention to network and system vulnerabilities and too little...
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Third Party Financial Health A Leading Indicator for All Areas of Risk
Complexity and uncertainty in the supply chain have increased exponentially in recent months leading to higher risk related to all aspects of third parties and supply chains. With the economic downturn expected to continue due to the destabilizing impacts of COVID-19,...
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Pre-Summit Workshops – Simply SIG and Point-By-Point Privacy
Day 2, Pre-Summit. From early morning until noon, SIG Toolkit Training – Covering all the Basics workshop was alive with metaphors (and a few practical jokes). Workshop leaders Christopher Campbell (Manager, Sales, Shared Assessments) and Tom Garrubba (Vice President,...
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Resilience Under Pressure: Putting The Shared Assessments Framework Into Action
With the support of BitSight, Shared Assessments kicked off pre-summit events with the “Putting the Shared Assessments Framework Into Action” workshop. From webcam to laptop, the online workshop was a successful exchange of knowledge mapping out navigable routes...
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Legal Liability: The Importance of Preparedness After COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic engulfing the world is already something for the history books. The resulting economic, social and political upheaval is, to put it mildly, unprecedented. Since the pandemic and its effects are on a scale not previously experienced in the modern...
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